Then-Anaheim Ducks captain accepts the Conn Smythe Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player in the playoffs from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, after his Ducks won the 2006-07 Stanley Cup title in June 2007. This was Niedermayer's fourth and final Stanley Cup title in a storied NHL career. The Cranbrook native was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.(AP Photo/Mark Avery, File)
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The B.C. Sports Hall of Fame announced its 2014 Class of Inductees at a ceremony in Vancouver on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. Pictured are the inductees (from left to right) Jane Carson (representing her late husband and inductee Paul Carson), Carly and Zoe Athans (representing their late father, inductee Greg Athans), Joanne Sargent, Lars Hansen (tall, back), Dr. Jack Taunton (back row next to Hansen), Joanne Mick, Stan Yip, Patti McGuire, Diane Materi and Janice Robinson from the 1978 Doc's Blues women's softball team, winner of this year's Team Category, Paul Swangard (back row between Materi and Robinson) representing late father and inductee Erwin Swangard, John Smart (back row, next to Swangard) friend of the late Sarah Burke, inductee) and Hockey Canada president and CEO Bob Nicholson. Unable to attend was inductee Scott Niedermayer.Jason Payne
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Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson looks on as the new Canadian Olympic team hockey jerseys are unveiled in October. Nicholson was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Frank Gunn, The Canadian Press
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The late Greg Athans, a pioneer in freestyle skiing, was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Submitted photo
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The late Sarah Burke of Whistler, a four-time X Games gold medallist in halfpipe who died in a training accident in 2012, was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Doug Pensinger
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Dr. Jack Taunton, then-chief medical officer for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, pictured in 2007. Taunton, a co-founder of the Vancouver Marathon and Vancouver Sun Run, was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Ian Lindsay
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Vancouver broadcaster Paul Carson behind the mic at the new Team 1040 all-sports radio station in 2000. Carson, who died in 2010, was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Glenn Baglo
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Then-Vancouver Sun managing editor Erwin Swangard (right) presents the Sun Match Play Open Trophy to golfer Johnny Russell, circa 1966. Swangard, who died in 1993, was named a 2014 inductee to the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.Deni Eagland
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VANCOUVER — The Hall of Fame honours keep adding up for Scott Niedermayer, one of the greatest defencemen in NHL history.

The Cranbrook-raised Niedermayer, who captained Canada to a dramatic gold medal at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, is one of 10 individuals announced Tuesday as part of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame 2014 induction class.

Niedermayer, who was also on teams that won a Memorial Cup, Stanley Cup, world junior hockey championship and an IIAF world championship, was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame last month and to the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.

Niedermayer is one of five athlete inductees to the B.C. Hall and goes in alongside hockey builder Bob Nicholson, the president and CEO of Hockey Canada. Nicholson has helped guide different Team Canada’s to more than 70 medals, including 43 golds, in international competition since 1990.

The other athlete inductees for 2014 include a pair of basketball players, Lars Hansen, who played with the Canadian men’s national team from 1972 to 1977 and won an NBA championship with the Seattle Supersonics in 1979, and Joanne Sargent, a Salmon Arm product who led UBC to two Canadian university championships and captained the Canadian women’s team at the 1976 Olympics.

And two freestyle skiers were also selected posthumously — Greg Athans, who was a pioneer in the sport in moguls and the now-defunct freestyle ballet, and Sarah Burke, a four-time X Games gold medallist in ski halfpipe and one of the key players in the movement to get the discipline added to the Olympic program for 2014.

Athans passed away at age 51 in 2006, while Burke died following a training accident in Utah in 2012 at the age of 29.

The other builder to be inducted is Dr. Jack Taunton, considered one of the grandfathers of sports medicine in Canada and a co-founder of the Vancouver Marathon and Vancouver Sun Run.

Robert Powell of Victoria, who reached the Wimbeldon semifinals in 1908 and captained the 1913 Canadian Davis Cup tennis team, will be inducted in the pioneer category.

The 1978 Doc’s Blues women’s softball team, which earned silver at that year’s world championships is going into the hall in the team category and the late Paul Carson, who was the sports director at CKVU from 1980 to 1999 when Sports Page was the must-see sports recap show, and who later helped launch Team 1040 Radio, is going in in the media category.

Erwin Swangard, a former sports editor at both the Vancouver Sun and Province and a man who led or inspired campaigns to bring the 1954 British Empire Games and the first Grey Cup outside of Toronto to Vancouver, was accorded the W.A.C. Bennett award.

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